Another blow came to the piracy movement with a UK court ruling that all ISPs in the country must ban thepiratebay.org. Fortunately one can still access The Pirate Bay using VPNs and proxies. Find out why the Pirate Bay was blocked after the break.

Earlier this week, Microsoft had confirmed that it is blocking links to The Pirate Bay in Windows Live Messenger. However, through some testing, I was not able to reproduce this today. Did they remove the site from their internal blacklist?

Swedish Police have acquired warrants to secretly raid noted torrent sharing platform The Pirate Bay. However, The Pirate Bay came to know of this information and leaked it to the public. Moreover, The Pirate Bay operates several public servers so effectively shutting down the site is next to impossible.

The three founders of the popular torrent site The Pirate Bay, Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Carl LundstrÃ¶m previous convictions have been upheld by a Swedish court, which means that the trio are now headed to prison.

An injunction against The Pirate Bay Traffic provider, CyberBunker operator CB3ROB Ltd. & Co. KG from the Regional Court of Hamburg has forced the routing provider of The Pirate Bay to stop routing traffic to their website servers.